Partitioning external HDD into HFS+ and NTFS

[hoogie]

Hi All,

I recently got my first Mac system and have decided it's about time that I started backing up with Time Machine.

Unfortunately my external HDD is currently formatted in NTFS and the disk has Windows backups which I want wo keep.

Is it possible to partition the HDD in two so that I have a HFS+ partition for Mac Time Machine backups and a NTFS partition to keep my old windows backups? If so how would I achieve this?

What I was thinking of trying was:
1) Transfer windows data to a windows system.
2) Use Mac to partition as HFS+ and FAT32
3) Use Windows to format the FAT32 partition into NTFS (not sure if this is possible)
4) Transfer windows backup onto the NTFS partition
5) Run Time Machine on teh HFS+ partition

Will this approach work or am I missing anything?

Cheers

 

[uniQ]

Transfer windows data.

Format drive as HFS+ using disk utility and with a GUID table instead of MBR.

Partition drive in disk utility as you choose. No need to go FAT32 then NTFS disk utility will do either.

Copy Windows data back.

 

[hoogie]

Thanks for confirming, I hoped it would be that simple